The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . r all thetraits of true Christianity seemed to unite their beauty, withoutgivino- to any one feature an unseemly prominence. His zeal wasardent, but imited with the greatest prudence. That prudence,instead of degenerating into craftiness, was accompanied by the mostperfect simphcity; simplicity was tempered by meekness, yet hismeekness had for its basis strong decision of character and unbend-ing firmness of principle. He never
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . r all thetraits of true Christianity seemed to unite their beauty, withoutgivino- to any one feature an unseemly prominence. His zeal wasardent, but imited with the greatest prudence. That prudence,instead of degenerating into craftiness, was accompanied by the mostperfect simphcity; simplicity was tempered by meekness, yet hismeekness had for its basis strong decision of character and unbend-ing firmness of principle. He never insulted charity by ofiering tosacrifice on her altar the truth as it is in Jesus, and yet he neverhoped to advance the cause of truth by bringing to her defencebigotry and intolerance. He loved the image of the Saviour whereverhe found it, and it was not the barrier of his own sect, or the badgeof another, that could prevent him from acknowledging his union inspirit with those whom the same Redeemer had purchased with thesame blood. Who will fail to recognize, in the portrait of the father, the hke-ness of the son ? The mantle of Elijah has fallen upon ^.
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